EP3742575B1 - Zu ladende vorrichtung und ladungssteuerungsverfahren - Google Patents

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EP3742575B1
EP3742575B1 EP18919132.3A EP18919132A EP3742575B1 EP 3742575 B1 EP3742575 B1 EP 3742575B1 EP 18919132 A EP18919132 A EP 18919132A EP 3742575 B1 EP3742575 B1 EP 3742575B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/02—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
    • H02J7/04—Regulation of charging current or voltage
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/007—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage
    • H02J7/00712—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
    • H02J7/007182—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters in response to battery voltage
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M10/00—Secondary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M10/42—Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells
    • H01M10/44—Methods for charging or discharging
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J50/00—Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power
    • H02J50/10—Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/007—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B5/00—Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
    • H04B5/70—Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems specially adapted for specific purposes
    • H04B5/79—Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems specially adapted for specific purposes for data transfer in combination with power transfer
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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  • This disclosure relates to the technical field of wireless charging, and more particularly to a device to-be-charged and a charging control method.
  • the mobile phone is charged mainly in the wired charging manner.
  • the mobile phone can be coupled with a power supply device via a charging cable (such as a universal serial bus (USB) cable), and through the charging cable, an output power of the power supply device can be delivered to the mobile phone to charge a battery of the mobile phone.
  • a charging cable such as a universal serial bus (USB) cable
  • the charging cable is needed for wired charging. This will result in complicated operations in a charging preparation stage. Therefore, a wireless charging manner is enjoying increasing popularity among consumers. However, a conventional wireless charging manner is poor in efficiency and thus needs to be improved.
  • US 2017/063140 provides an electronic device and a method for charging a battery of the electronic device.
  • the electronic device includes a circuit that changes a first voltage output from a first interface based on a second voltage output from a second interface, changes a first current output from the first interface based on a second current output from the second interface, and charges the battery based on the changed first current and second current.
  • US 2014/152251 provides an apparatus and a method for charge control in which a rectification unit is configured to convert AC power received wirelessly into DC power, and in which a DC/DC converter is configured to step down a voltage level of the DC power to a voltage level required by a load in a receiving mode.
  • US 2018/034305 provides a reception device for receiving wireless power, in which a charger is configured to process rectified power received from a power reception circuit and charge a battery of the reception device or output the rectified power to a system of the reception device.
  • a charging circuit gradually changes the input current limit of the charger by stepping up or stepping down the input current limit to one or more intermediary values until the input current limit reaches a predetermined value.
  • Implementations provide a device to-be-charged and a charging control method, which can improve charging efficiency of a wireless charging manner.
  • a power supply device (such as an adaptor) is generally coupled with a wireless charging apparatus (such as a wireless charging base), and via the wireless charging apparatus, an output power of the power supply device is delivered to the device to-be-charged wirelessly (for example, via an electromagnetic wave) for wireless charging of the device to-be-charged.
  • a wireless charging apparatus such as a wireless charging base
  • the wireless charging can be in the manner of magnetic coupling (or electromagnetic induction), magnetic resonance, and radio waves.
  • main wireless charging standard includes QI standard, power matters alliance (PMA) standard, and alliance for wireless power (A4WP) standard.
  • QI standard and PMA standard magnetic coupling is adopted for wireless charging
  • A4WP standard magnetic resonance is adopted for wireless charging.
  • a wireless charging system includes a power supply device 110, a wireless charging apparatus 120, and a device to-be-charged 130.
  • the wireless charging apparatus 120 can be, for example, a wireless charging base.
  • the device to-be-charged 130 can be, for example, a terminal.
  • an output voltage and an output current of the power supply device 110 can be transmitted to the wireless charging apparatus 120.
  • the wireless charging apparatus 120 can convert, via an internal wireless transmitting circuit 121, the output voltage and the output current of the power supply device 110 into a wireless charging signal (electromagnetic signal) for transmission.
  • the wireless transmitting circuit 121 can convert the output current of the power supply device 110 into an alternating current (AC) and convert the AC into the wireless charging signal via a transmitting coil or a transmitting antenna (not illustrated in FIG 1 ).
  • AC alternating current
  • the device to-be-charged can include but is not limited to a device configured via a wired line and/or a wireless interface to receive/transmit communication signals.
  • Examples of the wired line may include, but are not limited to, at least one of a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a digital subscriber line (DSL), a digital cable, a direct connection cable, and/or another data connection line or network connection line.
  • Examples of the wireless interface may include, but are not limited to, a wireless interface with a cellular network, a wireless local area network (WLAN), a digital television network (such as a digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) network), a satellite network, an amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) broadcast transmitter, and/or with another communication terminal.
  • a communication terminal configured to communicate via a wireless interface may be called a "wireless communication terminal", a “wireless terminal”, and/or a "mobile terminal”.
  • the mobile terminal may include, but are not limited to, a satellite or cellular telephone, a personal communication system (PCS) terminal capable of cellular radio telephone, data processing, fax, and data communication, a personal digital assistant (PDA) equipped with radio telephone, pager, Internet/Intranet access, web browsing, notebook, calendar, and/or global positioning system (GPS) receiver, and/or other electronic devices equipped with radio telephone receiver such as a conventional laptop or a handheld receiver.
  • the device to-be-charged may be a mobile terminal or a handheld terminal device, such as mobile phone, iPad, etc.
  • the device to-be-charged may be a system-on-chip, and a battery of the device to-be-charged may or may not belong to the system-on-chip.
  • the device to-be-charged 130 can receive, via a wireless receiving circuit 131, the wireless charging signal from the wireless transmitting circuit 121 and convert the wireless charging signal into an output voltage and an output current of the wireless receiving circuit 131.
  • the wireless receiving circuit 131 can convert the wireless charging signal transmitted by the wireless transmitting circuit 121 into an AC via a receiving coil or a receiving antenna (not illustrated in FIG 1 ) and rectify and/or filter the AC to be converted into the output voltage and the output current of the wireless receiving circuit 131.
  • the wireless charging apparatus 120 and the device to-be-charged 130 will negotiate a transmission power of the wireless transmitting circuit 121.
  • the output voltage and the output current of the wireless receiving circuit 131 are respectively 5V (volt) and 1A (ampere) in general.
  • the power negotiated between the wireless charging apparatus 120 and the device to-be-charged 130 is 10.8W for example, the output voltage and the output current of the wireless receiving circuit 131 are respectively 9V and 1.2A in general.
  • the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 is however not suitable to be directly applied to a battery 133. Instead, the output voltage needs to be subjected to constant voltage control and/or constant current control performed by a charging management circuit 132 of the device to-be-charged 130 to obtain an expected charging voltage and/or an expected charging current of the battery 133 of the device to-be-charged 130.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can be configured to convert the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 to meet requirements on the expected charging voltage and/or the expected charging current of the battery 133.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can be a charging integrated circuit (IC) (or referred to as charger). During charging of the battery 133, the charging management circuit 132 is configured to manage a charging voltage and/or a charging current applied to the battery 133.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can have at least one of a voltage feedback function and a current feedback function to achieve management of at least one of the charging voltage and the charging current applied to the battery 133 respectively.
  • a charging process of the battery can include at least one of a trickle charging stage, a constant-current charging stage, and a constant-voltage charging stage.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can utilize the current feedback function to make current flowing into the battery 133 in the trickle charging stage satisfy the expected charging current of the battery 133 (such as a first charging current).
  • the charging management circuit 132 can utilize the current feedback function to make current flowing into the battery 133 in the constant-current charging stage satisfy the expected charging current of the battery 133 (such as a second charging current, which may be larger than the first charging current).
  • the charging management circuit 132 can utilize the voltage feedback function to make voltage applied to the battery 133 in the constant-voltage charging stage satisfy the expected charging voltage of the battery 133.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can be configured to decrease (that is, step down) the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 to make decreased charging voltage meet requirements on the expected charging voltage of the battery 133.
  • the charging management circuit 132 can be configured to increase (that is, step up) the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 to make increased charging voltage meet requirements on the expected charging voltage of the battery 133.
  • the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 is a constant 5V.
  • the charging management circuit 132 (such as a Buck circuit) can decrease the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 to make the decreased charging voltage meet requirements on the expected charging voltage of the battery 133.
  • the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 is a constant 5V
  • the charging management circuit 132 (such as a Boost circuit) can increase the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 to make the increased charging voltage meet requirements on the expected charging voltage of the battery 133.
  • heat accumulated in the charging management circuit 132 may cause heat interference on electronic components near the charging management circuit 132, which can result in malfunction of the electronic components.
  • heat accumulated in the charging management circuit 132 may shorten the service life of the charging management circuit 132 and the service life of the electronic components near the charging management circuit 132.
  • heat accumulated in the charging management circuit 132 may cause heat interference on the battery 133, which thus leads to abnormal charging and discharging of the battery 133.
  • heat accumulated in the charging management circuit 132 may result in rise in temperature of the device to-be-charged 130 and therefore affects user experience when the device to-be-charged 130 is in use during charging.
  • heat accumulated in the charging management circuit 132 may cause the charging management circuit 132 to short circuit, and as a result, the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 may be directly applied to the battery 133, thus causing a charging abnormality. If the battery 133 is overcharged for a long time, it may even cause the battery 133 to explode, endangering the user's safety.
  • a charging power is 20W
  • a single cell has a charging voltage of 5V and a charging current of 4A.
  • the wireless transmitting circuit 121 can generate a wireless charging signal based on the charging voltage of 5V and the charging current of 4A.
  • the wireless receiving circuit 131 converts the wireless charging signal into an output voltage of 5V and an output current of 4A.
  • Such charging current of 4A will result in a large amount of heat generated during electrical energy transmission between the wireless transmitting circuit 121 and the wireless receiving circuit 131.
  • the wireless charging signal can be transmitted with high voltage.
  • the wireless transmitting circuit 121 can generate the wireless charging signal based on a voltage of 10V and a current of 2A. Accordingly, the wireless receiving circuit 131 converts the wireless charging signal into an output voltage of 10V and an output current of 2A.
  • the output current of the wireless receiving circuit 131 can be decreased from 4A to 2A. As such, it is possible to effectively reduce heat generation of the wireless receiving circuit 131.
  • the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 131 can be decreased with the charging management circuit 132, such that the charging voltage and/or the charging current applied to the battery 133 remains 5V/4A.
  • a step-down conversion efficiency (or energy loss during step-down conversion) of the charging management circuit 132 becomes a critical factor in heat generation of the device to-be-charged 130.
  • a device to-be-charged 230 includes a wireless receiving circuit 232, a charging management circuit 234, and a step-down circuit 236.
  • the wireless receiving circuit 232 is configured to receive a wireless charging signal to charge a battery 238.
  • the wireless receiving circuit 232 may include, for example, a receiving coil or receiving antenna (not illustrated in FIG 2 ) and a shaping circuit (such as a rectifying circuit and/or a filtering circuit) that is coupled with the receiving coil or receiving antenna.
  • the receiving coil or receiving antenna can be configured to convert the wireless charging signal into an AC.
  • the shaping circuit is configured to convert the AC into an output voltage and an output current of the wireless receiving circuit 232.
  • the charging management circuit 234 is configured to perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery 238.
  • the charging management circuit 234 has an output end directly coupled with the battery 238.
  • the charging management circuit 234 can directly convert an output voltage and/or an output current thereof into a charging voltage and/or a charging current currently required by the battery 238, to achieve constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery 238.
  • the output end of the charging management circuit 234 is indirectly coupled with the battery 238 via another circuit (such as the step-down circuit 236 that will be hereinafter described).
  • the charging management circuit 234 can control the output voltage and/or the output current thereof, such that the charging voltage and/or the charging current currently required by the battery 238 can be obtained after the output voltage and/or the output current of the charging management circuit 234 passes through the another circuit, to achieve constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery 238.
  • the step-down circuit 236 is configured to decrease the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 232 or the output voltage of the charging management circuit 234. With aid of the step-down circuit 236, a step-down function of the charging management circuit 234 and a constant voltage control and/or constant current control function of the charging management circuit 234 can be separated to some extent, which can reduce the amount of heat generated by the charging management circuit 234.
  • the step-down circuit 236 has a higher step-down conversion efficiency than the charging management circuit 234 (or a step-down circuit in the charging management circuit 234, such as a buck circuit).
  • the step-down conversion efficiency can be indicative of energy loss during step-down conversion.
  • the expression that "the step-down circuit 236 has a higher step-down conversion efficiency than the charging management circuit 234" can include the following. Energy loss (or power loss) of the step-down circuit 236 is lower than that of the charging management circuit 234 under the same step-down condition. If the buck circuit is used for step-down conversion in the charging management circuit 234, the expression that "the step-down circuit 236 has a higher step-down conversion efficiency than the charging management circuit 234" may include the following. The step-down circuit 236 has a higher step-down conversion efficiency than the buck circuit in the charging management circuit 234.
  • the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit is decreased not by completely relying on the charging management circuit. Instead, part or all of the step-down function of the charging management circuit is shared by the step-down circuit that has a relatively high step-down conversion efficiency, such that the charging management circuit can perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control within a relatively small voltage range, thus reducing heating of the device to-be-charged.
  • the charging management circuit 234 may be an inductive step-down circuit for step-down conversion
  • the step-down circuit 236 may be a capacitive step-down circuit (such as a charge pump) for step-down conversion.
  • the step-down circuit 236 may be a combination of an inductive step-down circuit and a capacitive step-down circuit.
  • the step-down circuit 236 is a charge pump. Since the charge pump is mainly composed of switch components, energy loss is low during step-down conversion, which is possible to improve step-down conversion efficiency. There is no particular restriction on the step-down factor (that is, a ratio of an output voltage to an input voltage) of the charge pump in implementations.
  • the step-down factor of the charge pump can be set according to actual needs, for example, the step-down factor can be at least one of 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, and the like.
  • an input voltage of the charging management circuit 234 is higher than the output voltage of the charging management circuit 234.
  • the charging management circuit 234 can be responsible for part of a step-down operation, and the remaining part of the step-down operation is performed by the step-down circuit 236 that has a relatively high step-down conversion efficiency.
  • the charging management circuit 234 performs a minor part of the step-down operation, and accordingly the step-down circuit 236 performs the remaining major part of the step-down operation. That is, the step-down circuit 236 has a larger step-down voltage difference than the charging management circuit 234. Since the step-down circuit 236 has a relatively high step-down conversion efficiency, by allocating the step-down operation in the manner above, it is possible to achieve further reduction in heating of the device to-be-charged.
  • the positional relationship between the charging management circuit 234 and the step-down circuit 236 is not specifically restricted in implementations, which will be exemplified below with reference to FIG 3 and FIG 4 .
  • the charging management circuit 234 has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the wireless receiving circuit 232.
  • the charging management circuit 234 is configured to perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery 238 according to the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 232.
  • the step-down circuit 236 has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the charging management circuit 234 and has an output end electrically coupled with the battery 238.
  • the step-down circuit 236 is configured to decrease the output voltage of the charging management circuit 234 and apply the decreased voltage to the battery 238 for charging.
  • the step-down circuit 236 is a half-voltage circuit (which has a step-down factor of 1/2).
  • the charging management circuit 234 can adjust the output voltage thereof, that is, perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on the output voltage thereof, such that the output voltage of the charging management circuit 234 is about twice the charging voltage currently required by the battery 238 and thus an output voltage of the half-voltage circuit matches the charging voltage currently required by the battery.
  • the charging management circuit 234 can sample the output voltage and/or the output current thereof and perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery based on the sampled output voltage and/or the sampled output current.
  • the charging management circuit 234 can sample a charging voltage and/or a charging current applied to the battery 238 and perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery based on the sampled charging voltage and/or the sampled charging current.
  • the charging management circuit 234 can perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery by adopting any other voltage sampling /current sampling manners, which is not limited herein.
  • the charging management circuit 234 and the wireless receiving circuit 232 can be integrated into one wireless charging chip. As such, it is possible to improve integration of the device to-be-charged 230 and simplify the structure of the device to-be-charged 230. For example, functions of a conventional wireless charging chip can be extended, such that the conventional wireless charging chip can support a charging management function.
  • the charging management circuit 234 and the step-down circuit 236 has been described with reference to FIG 3 . Another possible positional relationship between the charging management circuit 234 and the step-down circuit 236 will be given below with reference to FIG 4 . Different from implementations illustrated in FIG 3 , in implementations illustrated in FIG 4 , the step-down circuit 236 is arranged between the wireless receiving circuit 232 and the charging management circuit 234.
  • the step-down circuit 236 has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the wireless receiving circuit 232.
  • the step-down circuit 236 is configured to decrease the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit 232 to obtain a decreased voltage.
  • the charging management circuit 234 has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the step-down circuit 236 and has an output end electrically coupled with the battery 238.
  • the charging management circuit 234 is configured to perform constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery 238 according to the decreased voltage.
  • the battery 238 may include one single cell or multiple cells coupled in series.
  • a charging power is equal to 20W
  • a charging voltage applied to a single cell is equal to 5V.
  • a charging voltage applied to the battery 238 needs to be maintained at 10V, and accordingly an input voltage of the step-down circuit 236 needs to be higher than 10V.
  • the output current of the wireless receiving circuit 232 will be smaller and as such, the amount of heat generated by the wireless receiving circuit 232 will be reduced. Therefore, under the same charging power, by adopting multiple cells coupled in series, heating of the device to-be-charged can be further reduced.
  • the device to-be-charged 230 further includes a communication control circuit 237.
  • the communication control circuit 237 is configured to perform wireless communication with a wireless charging apparatus according to a voltage difference between the input voltage of the charging management circuit 234 and the output voltage of the charging management circuit 234 (hereinafter, "voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234" for short), to instruct the wireless charging apparatus to adjust the wireless charging signal to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234.
  • a step-down conversion efficiency of the charging management circuit 234 is positively correlated to the voltage difference between the input end and the output end of the charging management circuit 234. Therefore, by decreasing the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234, it is possible to further reduce heating of the charging management circuit 234, thereby further reducing heating of the device to-be-charged 230.
  • the communication control circuit 237 can detect or monitor in real time the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234.
  • the communication control circuit 237 can detect or monitor in real time the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234 in various manners.
  • the communication control circuit 237 can detect the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234 via a voltage detecting circuit or in other manners. This disclosure is not limited in this regard.
  • Control functions of the communication control circuit 237 may be implemented by, for example, a micro control unit (MCU) or an application processor (AP) of the device to-be-charged 230, or may be implemented cooperatively by the MCU and the AP
  • wireless communication can be performed based on Bluetooth, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), or backscatter modulation (or power load modulation).
  • the communication control circuit 237 can initiate the communication, to instruct the wireless charging apparatus to adjust the wireless charging signal to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234.
  • the wireless charging apparatus can initiate the communication, to inquire the communication control circuit 237 whether the wireless charging apparatus needs to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234. If there is a need to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234, the communication control circuit 237 can respond to the inquiry of the wireless charging apparatus to instruct the wireless charging apparatus to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit 234.
  • the manner of adjusting the wireless charging signal is not specifically limited in implementations.
  • the wireless charging apparatus can adjust the wireless charging signal by adjusting an input voltage and/or an input current of a wireless transmitting circuit.
  • the wireless charging apparatus can adjust the wireless charging signal by adjusting, through frequency modulation (FM) or duty cycle adjustment, an amount of power drawn by the wireless transmitting circuit from a power provided by a power supply circuit.
  • FM frequency modulation
  • the input voltage and/or the input current of the wireless transmitting circuit can be adjusted in various manners.
  • the wireless transmitting circuit can be directly coupled with the power supply circuit.
  • the wireless charging apparatus can adjust an output voltage and/or an output current of the power supply circuit to adjust the input voltage and/or the input current of the wireless transmitting circuit.
  • the wireless charging apparatus is provided with a voltage converting circuit.
  • the voltage converting circuit has an input end coupled with a power supply device and has an output end coupled with the wireless transmitting circuit.
  • the voltage converting circuit can adjust an input voltage of the power supply device to adjust the input voltage and/or the input current of the wireless transmitting circuit.
  • Apparatus/device implementations have been elaborated above with reference to FIG 2 to FIG 5 . Method implementations will be hereinafter elaborated with reference to FIG 6 . Method implementations and apparatus /device implementations correspond to each other. Therefore, for the part not described in detail, reference can be made to the foregoing apparatus /device implementations.
  • FIG 6 is a schematic flowchart of a charging control method according to implementations. The method is applicable to a device to-be-charged, such as the device to-be-charged 230 described above.
  • the method illustrated in FIG 6 includes operations at blocks S610 to S630.
  • a wireless charging signal is received with a wireless receiving circuit to charge a battery.
  • a charging management circuit perform, with a charging management circuit, constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery.
  • an output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit or an output voltage of the charging management circuit is decreased with a step-down circuit.
  • the charging management circuit has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the wireless receiving circuit.
  • the step-down circuit has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the charging management circuit and has an output end electrically coupled with the battery.
  • Operations at block S620 include performing constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery according to the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit.
  • Operations at block S630 include decreasing the output voltage of the charging management circuit.
  • the method of FIG .6 further includes applying a decreased voltage to the battery for charging.
  • the step-down circuit has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the wireless receiving circuit.
  • the charging management circuit has an input end electrically coupled with an output end of the step-down circuit and has an output end electrically coupled with the battery.
  • Operations at block S630 include decreasing the output voltage of the wireless receiving circuit to obtain a decreased voltage.
  • Operations at block S620 include performing constant voltage control and/or constant current control on charging of the battery according to the decreased voltage.
  • the step-down circuit is a charge pump.
  • an input voltage of the charging management circuit is higher than the output voltage of the charging management circuit.
  • the battery of the device to-be-charged includes multiple cells coupled in series.
  • a voltage difference between the input voltage of the charging management circuit and the output voltage of the charging management circuit (“voltage difference of the charging management circuit" for short) is smaller than a voltage difference between an input voltage of the step-down circuit and the output voltage of the step-down circuit.
  • the method further includes performing wireless communication with a wireless charging apparatus according to the voltage difference of the charging management circuit, to instruct the wireless charging apparatus to adjust the wireless charging signal to decrease the voltage difference of the charging management circuit.
  • the step-down circuit has a higher step-down conversion efficiency than the charging management circuit.
  • a ratio of the output voltage of the step-down circuit to the input voltage of the step-down circuit is 1:2, 1:3, 2:3, or 1:4.
  • All or part of the above implementations can be implemented through software, hardware, firmware, or any other combination thereof.
  • all or part of the above implementations can be implemented in the form of a computer program product.
  • the computer program product includes one or more computer instructions.
  • the computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatuses.
  • the computer instruction can be stored in a computer readable storage medium, or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium.
  • the computer instruction can be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center in a wired manner or in a wireless manner.
  • the wired manner can be a coaxial cable, an optical fiber, a DSL, etc.
  • the wireless manner can be, for example, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.
  • the computer readable storage medium can be any computer accessible usablemedium or a data storage device such as a server, a data center, or the like which is integrated with one or more usable media.
  • the usable medium can be a magnetic medium (such as a soft disc, a hard disc, or a magnetic tape), an optical medium (such as a digital video disc (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (such as a solid state disk (SSD)), etc.
  • a magnetic medium such as a soft disc, a hard disc, or a magnetic tape
  • an optical medium such as a digital video disc (DVD)
  • a semiconductor medium such as a solid state disk (SSD)
  • the systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed in implementations herein may also be implemented in various other manners.
  • the above apparatus implementations are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of units is only a division of logical functions, and there may exist other manners of division in practice, e.g., multiple units or assemblies may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or skipped.
  • the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection as illustrated or discussed may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interface, device or unit, and may be electrical, mechanical, or otherwise.
  • Separated units as illustrated may or may not be physically separated.
  • Components or parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, and may reside at one location or may be distributed to multiple networked units. Some or all of the units may be selectively adopted according to practical needs to achieve desired objectives of the disclosure.
  • Various functional units described in implementations herein may be integrated into one processing unit or may be present as a number of physically separated units, and two or more units may be integrated into one.

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  1. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130), umfassend:
    eine Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131), die dazu ausgelegt ist, ein Drahtlosladesignal zum Laden einer Batterie (133) zu empfangen;
    eine Lademanagementschaltung (132), die dazu ausgelegt ist, Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie (133) durchzuführen;
    eine Abwärtsschaltung (236), die dazu ausgelegt ist, eine Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) oder eine Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) herabzusetzen, um eine herabgesetzte Spannung zu erhalten, wobei die herabgesetzte Spannung zur Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung durch die Lademanagementschaltung (132) oder zum Laden der Batterie (133) verwendet wird; und
    gekennzeichnet durch:
    eine Kommunikationssteuerschaltung (237), die dazu ausgelegt ist, Drahtloskommunikation mit einem Drahtlosladegerät gemäß dem Spannungsunterschied zwischen der Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) und der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) durchzuführen, um das Drahtlosladegerät anzuweisen, das Drahtlosladesignal zum Herabsetzen des Spannungsunterschieds der Lademanagementschaltung (132) anzupassen.
  2. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach Anspruch 1, wobei
    die Lademanagementschaltung (132) ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) gekoppelt ist, und die Lademanagementschaltung (132) dazu ausgelegt ist, Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie (133) gemäß der Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) durchzuführen; und
    die Abwärtsschaltung (236) ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Lademanagementschaltung (132) gekoppelt ist, und ein Ausgangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit der Batterie (133) gekoppelt ist, und die Abwärtsschaltung (236) dazu ausgelegt ist, die Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) herabzusetzen und die herabgesetzte Spannung zum Laden an die Batterie (133) anzulegen.
  3. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach Anspruch 2, wobei die Lademanagementschaltung (132) und die Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) in einen Drahtlosladechip integriert sind.
  4. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach Anspruch 1, wobei
    die Abwärtsschaltung (236) ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) gekoppelt ist, und die Abwärtsschaltung (236) dazu ausgelegt ist, die Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung (131) herabzusetzen, um die herabgesetzte Spannung erhalten; und
    die Lademanagementschaltung (132) ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Abwärtsschaltung (236) gekoppelt ist, und ein Ausgangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit der Batterie (133) gekoppelt ist, und die Lademanagementschaltung (132) dazu ausgelegt ist, Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie (133) gemäß der herabgesetzten Spannung durchzuführen.
  5. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei eine Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) höher als die Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) ist.
  6. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach Anspruch 5, wobei ein Spannungsunterschied zwischen der Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) und der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung (132) kleiner als ein Spannungsunterschied zwischen einer Eingangsspannung der Abwärtsschaltung (236) und einer Ausgangsspannung der Abwärtsschaltung (236) ist.
  7. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, wobei die Abwärtsschaltung (236) eine höhere Abwärtswandlungseffizienz als die Lademanagementschaltung (132) aufweist.
  8. Zu ladende Vorrichtung (130) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei ein Verhältnis der Ausgangsspannung der Abwärtsschaltung (236) zur Eingangsspannung der Abwärtsschaltung (236) 1:2, 1:3, 2:3 oder 1:4 ist.
  9. Ladesteuerungsverfahren, umfassend:
    Empfangen (S610) eines Drahtlosladesignals mit einer Drahtlosempfangsschaltung zum Laden einer Batterie;
    Durchführen (S620) von Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung mit einer Lademanagementschaltung beim Laden der Batterie;
    Herabsetzen (S630) einer Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung oder einer Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung mit einer Abwärtsschaltung, um eine herabgesetzte Spannung zu erhalten, wobei die herabgesetzte Spannung zur Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung durch die Lademanagementschaltung (132) oder zum Laden der Batterie (133) verwendet wird; und
    gekennzeichnet durch:
    Durchführen von Drahtloskommunikation mit einem Drahtlosladegerät gemäß dem Spannungsunterschied zwischen der Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung und der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung, um das Drahtlosladegerät anzuweisen, das Drahtlosladesignal zum Herabsetzen des Spannungsunterschieds der Lademanagementschaltung anzupassen.
  10. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, wobei
    die Lademanagementschaltung ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung gekoppelt ist, und die Abwärtsschaltung ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Lademanagementschaltung gekoppelt ist, und ein Ausgangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit der Batterie gekoppelt ist;
    das Durchführen von Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie Folgendes umfasst:
    Durchführen von Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie gemäß der Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung;
    das Herabsetzen der Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung oder der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung Folgendes umfasst:
    Herabsetzen der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung; und
    das Verfahren ferner Folgendes umfasst:
    Anlegen der herabgesetzten Spannung zum Laden an die Batterie.
  11. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, wobei
    die Abwärtsschaltung ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung gekoppelt ist, und die Lademanagementschaltung ein Eingangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit einem Ausgangsende der Abwärtsschaltung gekoppelt ist, und ein Ausgangsende aufweist, das elektrisch mit der Batterie gekoppelt ist;
    das Herabsetzen der Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung oder der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung Folgendes umfasst:
    Herabsetzen der Ausgangsspannung der Drahtlosempfangsschaltung, um die herabgesetzte Spannung zu erhalten;
    das Durchführen von Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie Folgendes umfasst:
    Durchführen von Konstantspannungssteuerung und/oder Konstantstromsteuerung beim Laden der Batterie gemäß der herabgesetzten Spannung.
  12. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 11, wobei eine Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung höher als die Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung ist.
  13. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 9 bis 12, wobei ein Spannungsunterschied zwischen der Eingangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung und der Ausgangsspannung der Lademanagementschaltung kleiner als ein Spannungsunterschied zwischen einer Eingangsspannung der Abwärtsschaltung und einer Ausgangsspannung der Abwärtsspannung ist.
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